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TIL Progressive once hired a lawyer to defend a driver who killed their customer in an attempt to avoid paying out liability coverage.

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9jJQ TIL that in 1993, some FBI agents tried to order pizza from a recently raided psychiatric hospital, only to be rejected over the phone by an incredulous pizza delivery man.
R5vYQ TIL that lobsters were once considered the poor man's chicken. In the 18th and 19th centuries, lobsters were so abundant along the northeastern coast of North America that they were often fed to prisoners, apprentices, and servants multiple times a week.
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